More than 10,000 budding nurses and midwives will have their university degrees paid off in full to ease workforce pressures on the Australia’s state of Victoria’s stretched health system. The nurses and midwives will be recruited and trained for free from next year as part of a A$270 million (US$186 million) initiative announced by the…
Free University for 10,000 Nurses, Midwives in Australian State of Victoria
8 Strategies to Graduate College Debt-Free
There was a time when I didn’t have much opinion on paying for college with student loans. That was before the advent of email and thousands of messages, all with a similar subject line: “Help! I’m drowning in student loan debt!” That was before I learned that about 85% of college graduates do not end…
Michael Zwaagstra: By Keeping Draconian Pandemic Rules in Place, Universities Are Signalling Their Out-of-Touch Elitism
Commentary Proof of vaccination is required for students who want to live in residence at the University of Toronto. No, this wasn’t cut-and-paste from a 2021 article—it’s an actual requirement for the fall of 2022. Anyone who plans to live in residence at the University of Toronto must show proof of vaccination. Not only that,…
Campus Officials on the Precipice for Arbitrary Sexual Assault Rulings
Commentary Campus administrators running America’s Kangaroo courts have spent years running roughshod over the legal rights of young men accused of sexual assault. Now they’ve learnt they might be in the firing line when it comes to legal action against the universities. A series of judicial decisions has issued a warning to justice warriors who use their…
Student Slapped With ‘No Contact Order’ by University for Speaking Christian Values in Class Discussions
June 24, 2022
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It’s part of the whole college experience. Eager young minds, animated in discussion, engaging in robust classroom debate. It got lively, boisterous — even explosive at times — as bright pupils with great expectations shared, tested, and contested ideas about the world. This was the university, the crucible of learning, the engine of ideas. How…
Carnegie Mellon University to Give Employees $1,500 Check as Inflation Relief
Carnegie Mellon University said on Tuesday it is handing eligible employees a one-time $1,500 check to help them deal with the ongoing inflation. “The goal is to assist employees in addressing the impacts of inflation that have been so prevalent over the past several months,” CMU President Farnam Jahanian said in a message to faculty…
Violating ‘Stop WOKE Act’ Risks Millions in State Funding, University of Florida Warns
May 9, 2022
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The University of Florida (UF) could lose some $100 million in state funding if professors use lectures to force their personal views onto students, the university’s president warned. In a 20-slide presentation sent to all faculty members and staff last week, UF President Kent Fuchs said that the state could impose “large financial penalties” on…
Australian Senator Rex Patrick Campaigning for Free University Degrees
Senator for South Australia, Rex Patrick, will use the next parliamentary term to push for free tertiary qualifications for Australian school leavers if re-elected in late May. In a release on Wednesday, the independent senator said encouraging and expanding access to tertiary education is critical to Australia’s development as a high-tech, advanced economy and culturally…
Fired Professor With ‘Anti-Woke Position’ Fights to Regain Her Job
A Calgary professor who says she was fired for her stance on issues such as Black Lives Matter, indigenous residential schools, and the relationship between gender and biological sex has filed a grievance against her dismissal and will crowdfund the fight to regain her job. Frances Widdowson, a tenured associate professor in the department of…
University of Cincinnati Drops COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Starting from the upcoming 2022 summer semester, the University of Cincinnati (UC) will no longer require students and employees to get COVID-19 vaccines. The change comes about a month after UC, the second largest university in Ohio, stopped demanding people wear masks while inside campus buildings. UC still “strongly encourages” members of the campus community…
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